Tag: 2024

Arts, festival, Hong Kong, Preview

Arts of Hong Kong: Art Basel announces further highlights for its 2025 edition in Hong Kong

The 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong will bring together 240 exhibitors from 42 countries and territories, including 23 newcomers, presenting artistic practices that reflect the show’s commitment to global diversity and regional representation. More than half of the participating galleries are from the Asia-Pacific region, highlighting Art Basel’s vital role as a platform for the region’s dynamic art scene. The extensive week-long offsite … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong: Art Basel announces further highlights for its 2025 edition in Hong Kong

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Arts, festival, Hong Kong, Preview, Singapore

Arts of Hong Kong: The 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2025 opens

HONG KONG – The 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) officially opened on 28 February with a performance by Italy’s Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. This year, more than 1,300 acclaimed international and local artists will stage over 45 programmes in more than 125 performances during the month-long Festival, including four new works/world premieres, five Asian premieres and two co-productions. As of 28 … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong: The 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2025 opens

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Music, Review, Singapore

Gigs & Sets: lullaboy brings charm, soul and love to final leg of 2024 Coming Home tour

It was a night for the fans, as lullaboy took to the stage for his final stop in 2024 for his hotly-anticipated Coming Home tour. Named after his latest album, the Coming Home tour has already seen sold out shows in Jakarta, Bangkok, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur, before Singapore finally gets to experience it right here at the Esplanade Annexe Studio – and boy, were … Continue reading Gigs & Sets: lullaboy brings charm, soul and love to final leg of 2024 Coming Home tour

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Arts, Dance with Me, Review

★★★★★ Review: Corps extrêmes by Rachid Ouramdane and Compagnie de Chaillot

The majesty of the great outdoors captured in a risk-taking theatrical presentation. The realms of sports and arts may seem worlds apart, but French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane has found a veritable link between the two, with beauty in the human spirit to triumph against all odds. Such is the nature of his work Corps extrêmes, which made its Singapore debut as part of the Esplanade’s … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Corps extrêmes by Rachid Ouramdane and Compagnie de Chaillot

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Arts, Dance with Me, Review

★★★★☆ Review: A Reason For Falling by Hwa Wei-An

Finding meaning and momentum in persevering through the pain. No matter how many times it happens, the act of falling will always be coupled with a sense of fear, often from the knowledge that the point of impact is going to hurt. Yet when it becomes incorporated into one’s daily life, the pain that comes from each fall becomes somewhat more bearable when one becomes … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: A Reason For Falling by Hwa Wei-An

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Arts, Preview, Theatre

★★★☆☆ Review: Frenemies by Prem John and Chandi Perera

An unexpected, roller-coaster journey that brings two strangers to the highest of highs and lowest of lows. Some of the most rewarding experiences in life come from chance encounters, where two complete strangers come into each other’s trajectory for no discernible reason other than pure dumb luck. As fate would have it, for the two protagonists of Prem John and Chandi Perera’s Frenemies, they receive … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Frenemies by Prem John and Chandi Perera

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Arts, News, Preview, Singapore, Visual Art

Art What!: Singapore Art Museum presents Yee I-Lan’s ‘Mansau-Ansau’ and Pratchaya Phinthong’s ‘No Patents on Ideas’

Southeast Asia may be regionally and culturally-diverse, but there are often unexpected threads that tie these nations together. Whether it is the idea of shared colonial history, or ingrained systems that exist within society, there are often plenty of links that bring up fascinating dialogues and interactions when viewed in conjunction with each other, leading us to consider the hidden ties that bind. And so … Continue reading Art What!: Singapore Art Museum presents Yee I-Lan’s ‘Mansau-Ansau’ and Pratchaya Phinthong’s ‘No Patents on Ideas’

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Arts, Comedy, Review, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: Dim Sum Dollies Present The History of Singapore – Sixty Sexy Years by Dream Academy

As one of Dream Academy’s favourite recurring shows, the Dim Sum Dollies’ The History of Singapore is always a welcome production each time it receives a staging, where each iteration builds on the last, tracing the history of our small island nation from birth to modern day – alongside all its highs and lows, and everything is up for parody. Seamlessly blending humour and history, … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Dim Sum Dollies Present The History of Singapore – Sixty Sexy Years by Dream Academy

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Arts, Concert, Music, Review

Review: The Silence of All Things: Thus Have I Heard by Siong Leng Musical Association

Deconstructing the idea of Nanyin music to find relevance in today’s age. As important as traditional art forms are, many of them end up endangered with how niche the audience tends to be, and how newer generations may no longer be as aware or appreciative of them. To that end, the Siong Leng Musical Association has been consistently contributing impressive efforts towards the preservation and … Continue reading Review: The Silence of All Things: Thus Have I Heard by Siong Leng Musical Association

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Music, Singapore

Gigs & Sets: An Interview with rising pop sensation Lars Häggström AKA yaeow on making music and touring with lullaboy

There’s an air of excitement that surrounds Lars Häggström when we meet at Two Men Bagel House in Holland Village, a bright spark in his eyes that seems empowered by and enamoured with the world around him, perhaps life itself. Häggström, perhaps better known to fans by his moniker yaeow, is in Singapore for the week, where he will be performing as a special guest … Continue reading Gigs & Sets: An Interview with rising pop sensation Lars Häggström AKA yaeow on making music and touring with lullaboy

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